('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
The only way Oracle understands date computations is through operations on a number of days - or fractions of days, assumed to be plain 24 hour days of 3600 second hours (no 23h 56mn there). To remove a minute, you take a date and substract the fraction of day equal to a minute - eg 1 / (24 * 60).
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>I want to subtract a minute from a date/time
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>How can I do this?
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>John
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